For
The Love of Your Heart
Easy Esselstyn Diet Recipes
with Pictures: Getting
Farm-Fresh Produce
CSA1 |
Farm-Fresh Produce |
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Klaus Community Supported Agriculture |
Get your Produce from a Community Supported Agriculture
(CSA) Farm |
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Turtle Ridge Cooperative/Mill River Valley Gardens CSA 2012 |
Turtle Ridge Cooperative/Mill River Valley Gardens CSA 2011 |
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Select and Click Tabs above The Turtle Ridge Cooperative/Mill River Valley Gardens CSA January, 2011 http://www.turtleridgecooperative.org/2011/02/01/january-2011-newsletter/ at Mill River Valley Gardens, 3600 Ridge Road, North Haven CT 06473 in the shadow of the Sleeping Giant State Park. Walter Greist, owner (retired at the end of season 2011) |
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Registration starts in
January. By mid March, most slots are filled. So,
early contact and registration is essential. The confirmation letter: Welcome to the TURTLE
RIDGE COOPERATIVE INC./MILL RIVER VALLEY GARDENS CSA
for the 2011 season! We have received
your farmer/shareholder check for our 2011 season. You selected a
Standard Labor membership that requires 12 hours of assistance to the farm.
If you paid 50%, your second payment is due in May. You are
scheduled to pick up vegetables on Thursday, starting the week of June 27, for
seventeen consecutive weeks. Pick up times are 4 -6 PM. Pickup
locations will be emailed once confirmed. Total cost per season
is $530 (see January 2011 Newsletter link above), which including CSA
participation translates into shared produce cost of $31/week. |
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Labor commitment: 6 hrs before June 31, 6 hrs between Aug 1 - Nov 1 Call ahead for work assignments and hours:
Hours worked:
Email worked hours: Katherine is the person who keeps
track of work hours at Mill River Valley Gardens CSA
<mrvg.csa@gmail.com>. Katherine's cell phone: 617-650-5253 |
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Farm Activities |
May 01, 2011 |
Tour of the Farm: Herbs and Shiitake Mushroom share ready for pickup. |
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June27/30, 2011 |
Work Commitment 6 hrs: Harvest of Garlic Scapes.
Washing and bagging of greens. |
First work on the Farm on humid summery days.
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July 25, 2011 |
Work Commitment 2 hrs: Help with Distribution |
Boring standing around at the farm house. |
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Aug 11, 2011 |
Work Commitment 4 hrs: Harvest of Sun Golden Cherry Tomatoes and Tomatillos. Bagging of greens. |
Last work on Farm on a beautiful cool sunny morning.
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Sep 11, 2011 |
Season’s End Celebration at Gouvela Vineyards Wallingford, CT 064 |
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Pickup |
If Monday is
your pick-up day your pick-up location will be the share-out shed at the
farm: 3600 Ridge Road, North Haven. 3600
Ridge Rd is about 1/2 mile south on Ridge Road from Mt Carmel Ave. (Near
Quinnipiac University and Sleeping Giant State Park). If Thursday is
your pick-up day the pick-up location will be the Spring Glen Congregational
Church parking lot at 1825 Whitney Ave in Hamden (across from Best
Video). Do not call the church for information. The pick-up hours
for both locations are from 4:00 PM until 6:30 PM. If you find that you cannot make your pick-up, please notify Beverly Tift by 8:00 AM the morning of the pick-up. It is the responsibility of each shareholder to make alternative arrangements to pick up their shares. We recently provided the emails of shareholders for that purpose. If you call Beverly we may be able to arrange to leave your share in a cooler at the farm for a later pick-up, 10am the next morning at the latest. We have a very limited storage capability. If you do not call your share may be given away to someone else or to the food pantry after 6:30PM. Please do not call the farm to make these
arrangements. |
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Share Week |
Thursday Pickup |
Share Content, ()=not included |
Picture
of Share (Click on picture for link) |
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1. |
June 30, 2011 |
Lettuce Endive Chard Garlic Scapes (Mizuna) Shuko Choy Radishes (or
Scallions) Choice: Escarole (or
Italian Dandelion) |
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2. |
July 07, 2011 |
Lettuce Blueberries Summer Squash (or)
Chives Beets Sorrel Escarole Herb Bouquet (Choice: Sugar
Snap Peas, Mizuna, Daikon) |
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3. |
July 14, 2011 |
Escarole (Lettuce) Green Beans New Zealand Spinach Blueberries Summer Squash Scallions Basil Tips Mint |
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4. |
July 21, 2011 |
Lettuce Green Beans Summer Squash Purslane Potatoes Chard Possible choice
items: Cucumber, (Mache, kohlrabi) |
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5. |
July 28, 2011 |
New Zealand Spinach Potatoes Basil Beets Cucumber Squash Lettuce Peaches Tomatoes Sun-gold Cherry Tomatoes |
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6. |
Aug 04, 2011 |
Leeks Carrots Sun-gold Cherry
Tomatoes Tomatoes Eggplant Blueberries Farmer’s Surprise
Items: (Summer Squash,) Tomatillos, (Potatoes), green Tomatoes, and damaged
red Tomatoes. |
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7. |
Aug 11, 2011 |
Spaghetti Squash New Zealand Spinach Red Tomatoes Sun-gold Cherry Tomatoes Green Pepper Cantaloupe Garlic Farmer’s Surprise Items: (Summer Squash, Tomatillos, Green Zebra Tomatoes), Kohlrabi, Jimmy Nardello Sweet Italian Frying Peppers www.iowasource.com/food/cooks_0807.html |
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8. |
Aug 18, 2011 |
Red Tomatoes Sun-gold Cherry
Tomatoes Swiss Chard Eggplant Basil White (or Red)
Potatoes Cantaloupe Choice Table/Farmer's
Choice possibilities: Summer Squash, Cucumbers (Okra, Tomatilloes,) Green Zebra Tomatoes |
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9. |
Aug 25, 2011 |
Red Ripe Tomatoes |
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10. |
Sept 01, 2011 |
Tomatoes Peppers Eggplant Choice
Table to be a surprise Because
of the weekend weather (hurricane Irene) the fruit will also be a surprise |
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11. |
Sep 08. 2011 |
Tomatoes Leeks Chives
or Basil Malabar
Spinach http://tinyurl.com/3hbdld5 Winter
Squash (Apples
or) Pears Choice
Table Surprise? (The farmer doesn't know yet) |
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12. |
Sep 15. 2011 |
Cherry tomatoes Peppers
– Bell and Nardello Arugula
thinnings Winter
squash Fruit Choice
Table – surprise |
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13. |
Sep 22. 2011 |
Tomatoes Peppers
– Bell and Nardello Arugula Swiss
Chard Leeks Apples Choice
Table – as always, a work in progress Radishes
(if not this week, then next week) |
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14. |
Sep 29. 2011 |
Peppers
– Bell and Nardello Eggplant New
Zealand spinach Kiwi Arugula Herb
bouquet Cortland Apples Choice
Table – as always, a work in progress (People
who didn’t get radishes last week will get them this week) |
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15. |
Oct 6. 2011 |
Peppers
–Nardello Arugula Yams Yam
Greens Chives Fruit Possible
for Choice Table – as always, a work in progress Eggplant Bell
pepper Basil |
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16. |
Oct 13. 2011 |
Peppers
–Nardello or Bell Lettuce Beets
or Turnips Parsnips Mustard Greens Fruit Choice
Table is a work in progress |
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17. |
Oct 20. 2011 |
Garlic Lettuce Leeks Kale
or Chard Pears Cider Choice
Table: Greens |
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You will be able to ‘pick you own’ from the last week in October
until frost and will get info shortly. To make gleaning (pick your own) easier
you can now either make an appt or just come on by
between 10am - 5pm any day. Produce that is
available: A large amount of NZ Spinach (which needs to be harvest soon or it might be lost to
the first light-heavy frost. A medium amount of Swiss Chard Small amounts of Herbs ( oregano,
mint sage, thyme, chives, dill leaves, salad brunet, nasturtiums), cilantro,
leeks, corn stalks, yokka-na, small tomatilloes, Very small amounts of Lettuce, mustard, kale,
tiny eggplants?, rutagbagoes, chickery,
maruba-santo, -- Beverly A. Tift Farmer/CSA Manager |
Oct. 27: Chard |
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Beverly (the farmer) on the last day of share 17 distribution in Spring Glen. 2011 CROP INFORMATION 1. I
(Beverly the farmer) recently realized that I have
been remiss about letting the shareholders know about the status of our
crops. Farming has been physically challenging for me and for most of the
season the only thing I could literally do after a day at the farm was shower
and fall into bed. So the planned farm journal at the Turtle Ridge
website didn’t happen, which was going to be my vehicle for communication
with shareholders about crop status, etc. a. Weather: Sugar snap peas, totally
failed because of the cold, wet spring. Excessive late summer, early
fall rains impeded the growth of late
summer/fall crops. Hurricane Irene, damaged the tomatoes (early fall
red tomatoes and a planned share out of green
tomatoes.) Irene also damaged the leeks.
4.
HOW OUR CROPS IN PERFORMED 2011 a. Crops that produced as
expected. High yield items are marked with an *. NOTE: a few of
the items listed in this area were planned choice table items and you might
have not seen them. *Swiss Chard, Provider Beans, *Summer Squash, Cucumber, *Parsnips, *Red Potatoes, each share rec’d approximately 9
pounds. White potatoes, Beets I & II, *Peppers, *Eggplants,
*NZ Spinach,
Malabar Spinach,
Spaghetti and Butternut Squash, Endive, Escarole, Basil, Leeks, Sorrel, * Sungold Cherry Tomatoes, *Red tomatoes, *Green Zebra tomatoes, Spring/Fall radishes, Scallions, Yams/yam greens. *Shiitake, *Lettuce 10, Tomatillos, Lettuce 3 & 4, Garlic, Nasturtiums, Mustard Greens, Okra, Chives, Sage, Oregano, Thyme, Mint b. Reduced Yields, Most of
these items were scheduled to be a full share out for everyone but ended up
on the choice table. 1.
Carrots. Poor germination due to cold/wet spring and a planting error
will result in a smaller amount of carrots available for the first/second
carrot share out. (There was only one carrot shareout),
the second share out was choice table. 2. Lettuce
for shares #1 & #2 bolted, a lesser amount was available for share out. 3. Daikon
I, poor germination, choice table 4. Lettuce,
5, 6, poor germination, choice table 5.
Rutabagas, poor germination, a few available for post-harvest. 6. Onion,
weed pressure and not mulched. Smaller than normal shareout. 7.
Cilantro, part of crop was accidentally weeded out, choice table. 8. Tat-soi, extremely poor germination, choice table 9.
Baby corn, not enough planted, choice table 10. Beets III,
over-thinned, choice table 11. Turnips, not
enough planted, choice table 12. Red Russian
Kale, poor germination, insect/animal pressure, choice table. c.
Crop Failures: Again, most of these items were planned to be a shared out for
everyone. 1.
Scallions: Failure to thrive (soil PH?), animal/weed pressure .(We got
scallions from boulder knolls) 2. Sugar
Snap Peas: Poor germination due to weather cold and wet. Replanted,
still poor germination, failure to thrive There was only 8 small shares
( 3-4 oz each) for the choice table over two weeks 3. Mache,
weed pressure. 4. Parsley,
weed pressure. 5. Lettuce
8 & 7, poor germination, weed pressure 6. Lettuce
9, didn’t germinate. 7. Blue
Lake Beans in First Garden, animal/weed pressure 8. Blue
Lake Beans in Locust Garden, animal/weed pressure 9. Kohirabi, poor germination, weed/animal pressure.
About 10 kohirabi were harvested. 10. Haricot
Vert Beans, all three beds failed—weed/animal
pressure 11. Carrots
3, poor germination, weed/animal pressure 12.
Jalapeno peppers, failure to thrive, reason unknown (field too wet?) 13. Dakion II. Animal pressure 14.
Broccoli, animal pressure 15.
Chicory, animal pressure, failure to thrive 16. Jerusalem
artichokes, animal/weed pressure (We got a small amount from Boulder Knolls 17.
Amaranth, cause of failure unknown 18.
Dill, failure to thrive, reason unknown 19.
Lavender, people pressure 20.
Rosemary, no germination |
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